Society of Saint Gregory

I'm in a reflective mood. We had our Deanery Confirmation Mass this evening. I'm still calming down from the flood of adrenalin. It went very well indeed. The execution of the music could not have been much better (especially considering that the musicians and singers were put together from several ...

Two reflections: 1) In my liturgical ambitions, I generally abide by the Dirty Harry philosophy of life - "A man's got to know his limitations". So, because of limitations in numbers and ability, when our singers have harmonisation we generally just have the one line of harmony. Over the T...

Southern Comfort wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2017 8:44 am There's a very beautiful setting of the Pentecost Sequence in the Psallite Mass "At the Table of the Lord". 10 Pentecost Sequence.mp3
The songbook also gives the same setting with the Latin text for those who want to use it in that language.

Now that is lovely!!!

My only contribution to this topic is to consider the length of the Offertory hymn. Can you get through the whole thing before the priest is ready to carry on with the liturgy or are you going to hold things up to fit in all 8 verses for the sake of it, thus making the liturgy the servant of the mu...

Maria Parkinson was one of a group of giggling teenage convent schoolgirls who took part in a school liturgy day at the St Thomas More Centre in Manor House in the mid 1970s. This particular group were given the task of writing a hymn or song, and "As I kneel before you" is what they came...

I know Maria. She lives about seven miles away from me. She is married and no longer goes by "Parkinson". Not a "one-hit-wonder"; she also composed "Come, let us go up to the Lord, to the temple of our God" which I use for the Entrance Hymn every 1st Sunday of Advent, Y...

That particular tune is one I really, really dislike. All those crotchets, one after another. There must be an alternative ........ I have found recordings on YouTube that uses essentially the same tune as found in Celebration Hymnal, but with a few dotted crotchets rather than the relentless strea...

I am looking for guidance on planning a Confirmation Mass in the light of whatever changes have happened in the last two or three years. We will sing the Gloria, and the Mass. But will the Mass be the Mass of the day, which will be Tuesday week 9 OT, so a first reading about Tobit taking a bath and...

I rather like the dirge tune!!!
For those of us not familiar with Nottingham/Mozart and other names for famous tunes, which one are you on about?

By the way - 1st post!!!

Welcome to the forum!!!

We tend to sing an Offertory Hymn but I rarely set one that is specific to the Offertory. It's too limiting, for a start - there are not that many of them (as you have found) and even fewer that have merit and are worth singing. So, when we have an Offertory hymn, it is more likely to be one on the ...

I wonder to what extend the Vigil is "sold" as the highpoint of the whole year - to what extent we "big-it-up". I don't think that it is too controversial to state that we don't have the most theologically or liturgically literate laity, and they need help to get a sense of and u...

This year was the first time that I have organised the Triduum Liturgies, because this year was the first time that we started the Vigil at a time I was comfortable with - 9pm. I cannot speak for previous years (we took ourselves off to Ampleforth) but this year we most certainly did intone the Alle...

Or possibly one of the few who follows the directions in the GIRM. That has been one of my problems. We have introduced several things that are in keeping with GIRM norms which have not been the "norm" in the parish in a long, long time. As such, we have met resistance from some. It's not...

justMary wrote:......if you aren't getting any [complaints] then you probably aren't being brave enough.

I think that this is a very valid point.